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Sass Fee?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Cervinia
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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This thread keeps reminding me how many ski areas I have never skied in.
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I'm thinking it is something French - going to go with Tignes
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@extremerob, yep: name that couloir/pitch?
In response to the Swiss Wall guess, this pitch is looker’s right of the old Tignes Wall, tongue of glacier.
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big clue: pitch marked in blue above the right of the T
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@Grinning, I havent spent enough time in Tignes to know it but it reminds me of something as you go up Lanches lift?
Just saw the previous clue - so its Tignes Wall or Glacier Language
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Oh yes it was one of that series 1, 2 and 3. I can't remember their group name, but I assume this is 3. Have to look it up. They used to be skied quite a lot but now with the glacier shrinking it is a bit of a walk.
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Couloirs de la Grand Balme. Except they are more above the "I", or between I and G on your tiny pic. And it doesn't look steep enough or narrow enough.
Did you mean after the wall of the end of the main glacier, hardly a couloir really and not mentioned in the off-piste book I have. No idea what that is called. The wall is quite recent, I think, and has been formed by the melting back of the glacier.
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OK, found it, it is the couloir de la Petite Balm (I think)following on from the Langue du Glacier
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@snowball, it’s opposite the Pt Balme (red zone) on the Grande Balme side.
The Lanches chair separates Pt Balme from Grande Balme.
On the Grande Balme side Looker’s left of P1-P3 (yellow zone). There is the pictured couloir A and one to the looker’s right B before you get into P1. Pictured couloir A is Boites aux lettres (post box) and the one to the right of that is Espagnol B after an eponymous casualty. The naming of A and B switches depending on the time of year and which planets are aligning. The chute of A makes sense as a letter posting chute but the hop into Espagnol is quite postal. Equally naming of the Ps from left to right or vice versa is hotly disputed but in Tignes I read P1-3 from left to right which makes sense to me.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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??? 
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You know it makes sense.
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Letter box A & Espagnol B lie between the Langue de glacier/Tignes wall (mur) and the yellow Ps. The pictured slab released under Espagnol B.
Your go @extremerob, 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Last edited by Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name: on Sun 31-01-21 14:51; edited 1 time in total
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Poster: A snowHead
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It is so long since I skied the Tignes area that I am now totally confused about which is what (though your explanation helps). The best of them, which I have only skied once, was (from the summit of) the Grande Balme, on its main, North face, which was a great descent. But you feel like the world is watching you, so you can't mess up.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Grinning, I am guessing there are loads of different variations as well - I saw a video on youtube that was called P0 / espagnol - what is the story with espagnol's naming couldn't find that online?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Look at all that safe(?), easy powder!
Somewhere like Slovakia?
Last edited by Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see? on Sun 31-01-21 14:44; edited 1 time in total
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Sort of looks like Corvara (I think) but mirrored.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Mont-dore.
An unlikely place for a ski resort, but does look like good snow!
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extremerob, stolen pic ? 
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@robs12, on the money
@Bones, yep - discovered what looks to be like a little gem when looking for ski resorts close to Marseille
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Does look nice, though a little limited and a little low. Here's an old one from the mid 80's, probably easy:
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Stubai (the glacier)?
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Hintertux?
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@stevew - gets a hole in one! The lift's a bit different these days. Over to you.
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D'oh! I gussed Hintertux and changed it to Stubai
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You know it makes sense.
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Mont-dore.
An unlikely place for a ski resort, but does look like good snow! |
Duhh, should've got that as I'm probably the only one on here to have walked up toward there, though from the Super Besse side. 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Someone else have a go please as I'm not likely to be able to get around to working out how to upload a photo today.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I had a day trip to Super Besse in the late 80's with my school exchange family at Easter. It was a bit warm but a nice surprise! I don't remember there being as many lifts as there are now but maybe we stuck to a couple as it was Easter in the Massif Central....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@snowball, Now that is a great descent. I have the almost the same photo. I'll let it run though. Should prove to be a good debate.
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@RedandWhiteFlachau, There are a number of people on here who I think may have skied it - but can they remember it?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I know it's not the right answer, but reminds me of the much-hated Santons piste in Val D'Isere 
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I think swiss, verbier?
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Sarenne at L'alpe D'huez ??
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@snowball, Arlberg?
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No, but it is a classic couloir.
Sorry for the slow response but we were eating a very delicious Chicken Tagine, delivered by a local kitchen (only NW5 and NW3)
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Chamonix?
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